[…] lives under the royal nose of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last […]
[…] TV long before becoming an MP in 1964. Had she really ‘failed to appreciate the media interest in the latest phase’ of the setting up of a new party that would for two general elections split opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives? Evacuated by her parents to the United States in the Second World War, […]
[PDF file]: […] the throne. Britain had full employment, an NHS with proportionally much lower prescription charges, a huge public transport network, a 100% government–funded housing programme that built 250,000 new homes per year (allocated as permanent tenancies and at a very low rent)1 and maintained much larger armed forces, together with a completely independent UK manufactured […]
Contents The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, £14.99 Tom Easton Lobster contributor Dan Hind has produced a mind-stretching plea to no longer leave politics to the experts – the practitioners and the gatekeepers who control access […]
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[PDF file]: […] of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. Gould went on to stand against John Smith for the leadership of the party in 1992 and lost heavily. New Labour – at its core the capitulation to the financial sector – could be said to have begun there. We still don’t know why the Gould […]
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[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the […]
[PDF file]: Gangsterismo The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading […]
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